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Materia Medica Questions
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Aceticum acidum
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1. Describe how Aceticum acidum disease affects the
energy level of the patient.

2. How is thirst affected in dropsical conditions of
Aceticum acidum?

3. Mention the conditions in which thirst is increased
or is absent in Aceticum acidum patients.

4. Describe the characteristic features of Aceticum
acidum urine.

5. What parts of the body are mostly emaciated in a
chronic Aceticum acidum patient?

6. What is the post-operative indication of Aceticum
acidum?

7. How is perspiration affected in Aceticum acidum?

8. Mention the important mental concomittent of
Aceticum acidum in its headaches.

9. Describe 'Vomiting' features of Aceticum acidum.

10. What kinds of food the Aceticum acidum patient is
aggravated by or averse to?

11. What are the two important "sensation as if"s of
aceticum acidum in stomach?

12. Describe the famous modality of Aceticum acidum in
stomach pains.

13. Mention four important features of Aceticum acidum
fevers.

14. How do most Aceticum acidum patients look like?

15. What is the most important general sensation that
runs through Aceticum acidum patient?

16. Mention the main modalities of Aceticum acidum
dyspnea.

17. What is the therapeutic use of Aceticum acidum in
its undynamized form?

18. Mention four important mental symptoms of Aceticum
acidum.

19. Which cheek does usually become red in Aceticum
acidum fevers?

20. What is the effect of cold drinks on Aceticum
acidum patients?

21. What is the indication of aceticum acidum in
pregnancy and after labour?

You are free to post your answers, comments, related
cases,...to the list (It is not like FTRNs that you
should not mention the name of the remedies!) I will
be so happy to see your contributions.

Answers will be posted in the second post of Aceticum
acidum.

Sincerely,

Ardavan Shahrdar, MD, DIHom

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This from Murphy's MM
Which is a nice handbook when traveling, etc as it is compact and well
made.

I will now go into other MM's to read this remedy again.

This was fun and very productive.
Warmly, Maria
On Mon, 10 Sep 2001 11:17:32 +0100 (BST)
=?iso-8859-1?q?Ardavan=20Shahrdar?= writes:

A. Produces profound anemia with some dropsical conditions, great
debility, frequent fainting, dyspnea, weak heart, vomiting, profuse
urination and sweat.
A. Intense thirst with dropsy and diabetes
A. No thirst with fever. Great thirst with diabetes and dropsy.
Thirsty with dry lips that peel off in flakes.

A. Excess of pale urine with excessive thirst and debility.

A. Emaciation of limbs.
A. An antidote for the ill effects of anesthesia. For dull and groggy
people since anesthesia. For memory problems or chronic fatigue.
A. Drenching night sweats with hectic fever. Low fever with night
sweats. Sweat on forehead in spots.
A. Child doesn't want head touched. Temporal Vessels distended.
A. Vomits after every kind of food. Sour belching and vomiting.
A. Disgust for salty food and cold food. Cold drinks disagree. All
vegetables, except potatoes, disagree. Bread and Butter disagrees.

A. 'As if' she had taken a lot of vinegar
Burning pains 'as if' an ulcer

A. (?) Abdomen feels sunken in when lying on the back. (>lying on
stomach for back pains.) ???

A. 1) Hectic fever with drenching night sweats
2) No thirst in fever
3) Red spot on Left cheek
4) Cold profuse sweat
5) Low fever with night sweats
for Putrid and Typhoid fevers
A. Waxy pale skin, lax anemic. Suitable for children and old people.
Wasting away.
A) Fevers, profuse discharges, waterbrash.
A. Coughs when inhailing. membraneous croup.
Anxiety attacks with breathing difficulties.
A. To reduce fevers. Sponging down with vinegar and water for many
conditions.
I use it mixed with water on a towel to reduce the heat in sunburns.
A. 1) irritable and worried about business
2) Grieves about sickness and children
3) Borrows trouble
4) Does not know own children
5) Forgets what recently happened
6) Anxiety attacks with difficulty breathing
7) Grieves much, sighs often
A. Left

A. It disagrees.
A. Nausea of pregnancy.
Painfully enlarged mammae distended with milk, anemia of nursing
mothers,
Metrorrhagia with great thirst after childbirth.
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Materia Medica Questions
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Aceticum acidum
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1. Describe how Aceticum acidum disease affects the
energy level of the patient.
This drug produces a condition of profound anæmia, with some dropsical symptoms, great debility, frequent fainting, dyspnoa, weak heart, vomiting, profuse urination and sweat. (Boericke)
2. How is thirst affected in dropsical conditions of
Aceticum acidum?
great thirst; in dropsy, typhus, phthisis; with night sweats (Allen Keynotes)
3. Mention the conditions in which thirst is increased
or is absent in Aceticum acidum patients.
Thirst; intense, burning, insatiable even for large quantities in dropsy, diabetes, chronic diarrhoea; but no thirst in fever (Allen keynotes)
4. Describe the characteristic features of Aceticum
acidum urine.
Large quantities of pale urine. Diabetes, with great thirst and debility (Phos ac).
(Boericke MM)
Urine increased in quantity and of a lighter color, [4]. The secretions smell of the drug, [3]. (Urine cloudy), [3].
(Allen Enciclo)
5. What parts of the body are mostly emaciated in a
chronic Aceticum acidum patient?
I can't find it in my books
6. What is the post-operative indication of Aceticum
acidum?
after surgical shock; after anaesthetics.
Great prostration; after injuries ( Sulph. ac. ); after surgical shock; after anaesthetics (Allen Key)
Vinegar is an old remedy for bad effects from chloroform (Kent MM)
7. How is perspiration affected in Aceticum acidum?
Cold perspiration, [3]. Profuse perspiration, [3]. He was bathed in perspiration, [1]. [120.] Profuse night-sweats, [3].(Allen Encic)

8. Mention the important mental concomittent of
Aceticum acidum in its headaches.
I Can't Find it in my books
9. Describe 'Vomiting' features of Aceticum acidum.
Nausea, [3]. Retching, [3]. Vomiting soon after eating, [4]Frequent vomiting, [1]. (Allen Encic)
10. What kinds of food the Aceticum acidum patient is
aggravated by or averse to?
Disgust for salted things and cold victuals.-Cold drinks lie heavy.-Vegetables, except potatoes, disagree, also bread and butter still more (Clarke)
11. What are the two important "sensation as if"s of
aceticum acidum in stomach?
Contents of stomach feel as if in a ferment; (Clarke)
Stomach feels as if she had taken a lot of vinegar.(Boericke)

12. Describe the famous modality of Aceticum acidum in
stomach pains.
Violent burning pain in stomach and chest, followed by coldness of skin and cold sweat on forehead. (Boericke)
13. Mention four important features of Aceticum acidum
fevers.
Skin cold.-Slow fever with night sweats.-Profuse perspiration.-Hectic.-Putrid and typhous fevers.(Clarke)

14. How do most Aceticum acidum patients look like?
General anemia with a waxy skin, anasarca, emaciation and sweats.(Allen Encic)
The leading features of acetic acid are excessive wasting and debility; anæmia with waxy pallor of face; intense thirst; burning in throat; nausea, retching, and sour rising (Clarke)

15. What is the most important general sensation that
runs through Aceticum acidum patient?
Burning in inner and outer parts.
(Clarke)
16. Mention the main modalities of Aceticum acidum
dyspnea.
Hissing respiration, with rattling in the throat.-Croup-like cough; a hollow sound with each inhalation.(Clarke )
17. What is the therapeutic use of Aceticum acidum in
its undynamized form?
Equal parts of vinegar and hot water make a refreshing sponge-down for many conditions of fever, with or without perspiration (Clarke)
18. Mention four important mental symptoms of Aceticum
acidum.
Confusion of ideas, [2]. Diminished intellectual power, [2]. Disinclination to exert the mind, [2]. She is hardly able to express herself, [1]. She is unconscious of all around her, (Allen Encic)
19. Which cheek does usually become red in Aceticum
acidum fevers?
Left cheek (esp.) very red during fever (Clarke)
20. What is the effect of cold drinks on Aceticum
acidum patients?
Disgust for salted things and cold victuals.-Cold drinks lie heavy.- (Clarke)
21. What is the indication of aceticum acidum in
pregnancy and after labour?
after parturition, with great thirst.(Clarke)
Metrorrhagia after parturition, with great thirst(Guernsey Keynotes)
Thanks Ardavan
Saludos
Eugenio
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